Dr. Lena Scheiffele
AG Wasser- und Stofftransport in Landschaften
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Campus Golm
Haus 1, Raum 0.05
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
CV
Research Experience
- 2018 - present: Reseacher at University of Potsdam, DFG research group "Cosmic Sense", Institute of Earth and Environmental Science
- 2016 - 2017: Reseacher at University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science
- 2014: Research Assistant at University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science
- 2011 - 2014: Research Assistant at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Education
- 2019 - 2024 : PhD in Geoecology at University of Potsdam
- 2011 - 2015: Master of Science Geoecology at University of Potsdam
- 2008 - 2011: Bachelor of Science Geoecology at University of Potsdam
Forschung
- Soil moisture measurements with Cosmic-ray neutron sensing
- Vadose zone hydrology
- Groundwater recharge
- Soil hydraulic modelling
Lehre
Past
- Irrigation in Agricultural Hydrology
- Seminar Datenquellen und -aufbearbeitung (GIS)
- Übung Hydrogeologie (Master Geoökologie)
- Geländeklimatologie und Bodenhydrologie im Landschaftspraktikum (Bachelor Geoökologie)
- Seminar Stoffdynamik (Bachelor)
Publikationen
Scheiffele, L. M., Munz, M., Francke, T., Baroni, G., and Oswald, S. E.: Enhancing Hectare-Scale Groundwater Recharge Estimation by Integrating Data From Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing Into Soil Hydrological Modeling, Water Resources Research, 61, e2024WR037641, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR037641, 2025.
Francke, T., Brogi, C., Duarte Rocha, A., Förster, M., Heistermann, M., Köhli, M., Rasche, D., Reich, M., Schattan, P., Scheiffele, L., and Schrön, M.: Virtual joint field campaign: a framework of synthetic landscapes to assess multiscale measurement methods of water storage, Geoscientific Model Development, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2024-106, 2024.
Heistermann, M., Francke, T., Scheiffele, L., Dimitrova Petrova, K., Budach, C., Schrön, M., Trost, B., Rasche, D., Güntner, A., Döpper, V., Förster, M., Köhli, M., Angermann, L., Antonoglou, N., Zude-Sasse, M., and Oswald, S. E.: Three years of soil moisture observations by a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensing cluster at an agricultural research site in north-east Germany, Earth System Science Data, 15, 3243–3262, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3243-2023, 2023.
Scheiffele, L. M., Schrön, M., Köhli, M., Dimitrova-Petrova, K., Altdorff, D., Franz, T., Rosolem, R., Evans, J., Blake, J., Bogena, H., McJannet, D., Baroni, G., Desilets, D., and Oswald, S. E.: Comment on ‘Examining the variation of soil moisture from cosmic-ray neutron probes footprint: experimental results from a COSMOS-UK site’ by Howells, O.D., Petropoulos, G.P., et al., Environ Earth Sci 82, 41 (2023), Environ Earth Sci, 82, 474, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-11186-6, 2023.
Bogena, H. R., Schrön, M., Jakobi, J., Ney, P., Zacharias, S., Andreasen, M., Baatz, R., Boorman, D., Duygu, M. B., Eguibar-Galán, M. A., Fersch, B., Franke, T., Geris, J., González Sanchis, M., Kerr, Y., Korf, T., Mengistu, Z., Mialon, A., Nasta, P., Nitychoruk, J., Pisinaras, V., Rasche, D., Rosolem, R., Said, H., Schattan, P., Zreda, M., Achleitner, S., Albentosa-Hernández, E., Akyürek, Z., Blume, T., del Campo, A., Canone, D., Dimitrova-Petrova, K., Evans, J. G., Ferraris, S., Frances, F., Gisolo, D., Güntner, A., Herrmann, F., Iwema, J., Jensen, K. H., Kunstmann, H., Lidón, A., Looms, M. C., Oswald, S., Panagopoulos, A., Patil, A., Power, D., Rebmann, C., Romano, N., Scheiffele, L., Seneviratne, S., Weltin, G., and Vereecken, H.: COSMOS-Europe: a European network of cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture sensors, Earth System Science Data, 14, 1125–1151, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1125-2022, 2022.
Barbosa, L. R., Coelho, V. H. R., Scheiffele, L. M., Baroni, G., Filho, G. M. R., Montenegro, S. M. G. L., Almeida, C. das N., and Oswald, S. E.: Dynamic groundwater recharge simulations based on cosmic-ray neutron sensing in a tropical wet experimental basin, Vadose Zone Journal, 20, e20145, https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20145, 2021.
Scheiffele, L. M., Baroni, G., Franz, T. E., Jakobi, J. and Oswald, S. E.: A profile shape correction to reduce the vertical sensitivity of cosmic-ray neutron sensing of soil moisture, Vadose Zone Journal, 19(1), e20083, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20083, 2020.
Fersch, B., Francke, T., Heistermann, M., Schrön, M., Döpper, V., Jakobi, J., Baroni, G., Blume, T., Bogena, H., Budach, C., Gränzig, T., Förster, M., Güntner, A., Hendricks Franssen, H.-J., Kasner, M., Köhli, M., Kleinschmit, B., Kunstmann, H., Patil, A., Rasche, D., Scheiffele, L., Schmidt, U., Szulc-Seyfried, S., Weimar, J., Zacharias, S., Zreda, M., Heber, B., Kiese, R., Mares, V., Mollenhauer, H., Völksch, I. and Oswald, S.: A dense network of cosmic-ray neutron sensors for soil moisture observation in a highly instrumented pre-Alpine headwater catchment in Germany, Earth System Science Data, 12(3), 2289–2309, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2289-2020, 2020.
Scheiffele, L. M., Franz, T. E., Oswald, S. E. and Baroni, G.: Testing a new correction factor to account for the vertical sensitivity ofcosmic-ray neutron sensing for soil moisture estimation, European Geosciences Union, Wien., 2019.
Baroni, G., Scheiffele, L. M., Schrön, M., Ingwersen, J. and Oswald, S. E.: Uncertainty, sensitivity and improvements in soil moisture estimation with cosmic-ray neutron sensing, Journal of Hydrology, 564, 873–887, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.07.053, 2018.
Schrön, M., Köhli, M., Scheiffele, L., Iwema, J., Bogena, H. R., Lv, L., Martini, E., Baroni, G., Rosolem, R., Weimar, J., Mai, J., Cuntz, M., Rebmann, C., Oswald, S. E., Dietrich, P., Schmidt, U. and Zacharias, S.: Improving calibration and validation of cosmic-ray neutron sensors in the light of spatial sensitivity, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21(10), 5009–5030, doi:10.5194/hess-21-5009-2017, 2017.
Scheiffele, L. M., Baroni, G., Schrön, M., Ingwersen, J. and Oswald, S. E.: Evaluation of uncertainty in field soil moisture estimations by cosmic-ray neutron sensing, in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, vol. 19, p. 13830., 2017.
Robledo-Abad, C., Althaus, H.-J., Berndes, G., Bolwig, S., Corbera, E., Creutzig, F., Garcia-Ulloa, J., Geddes, A., Gregg, J. S., Haberl, H., Hanger, S., Harper, R. J., Hunsberger, C., Larsen, R. K., Lauk, C., Leitner, S., Lilliestam, J., Lotze-Campen, H., Muys, B., Nordborg, M., Ölund, M., Orlowsky, B., Popp, A., Portugal-Pereira, J., Reinhard, J., Scheiffele, L. and Smith, P.: Bioenergy production and sustainable development: science base for policymaking remains limited, GCB Bioenergy, 9(3), 541–556, doi:10.1111/gcbb.12338, 2016.
Scheiffele, L. M., Baroni, G. and Oswald, S. E.: Assessment of Soil Moisture Dynamics on an Irrigated Maize Field Using Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing, in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, vol. 17, p. 830. [online] Available from: adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015EGUGA..17..830S (Accessed 22 June 2016), 2015.
Bodirsky, B. L., Popp, A., Weindl, I., Dietrich, J. P., Rolinski, S., Scheiffele, L., Schmitz, C. and Lotze-Campen, H.: N2O emissions from the global agricultural nitrogen cycle - current state and future scenarios, Biogeosciences, 9(10), 4169–4197, doi:10.5194/bg-9-4169-2012, 2012.